![]() ![]() ![]() On closer inspection, the lumps show a drilled hole where a rotating cam would normally engage with the extractors. Yet, the barrels are exactly what I’d expect to see on one. While nicely made and retaining a lot of original colour hardening, this gun simply does not match Grant’s standards. Even those with simpler engraving are of the highest build quality. Stephen Grant made very few hammer guns of less than best quality. However, the lock and stock style is atypical and the quality not what one would expect from a maker of Grant’s pedigree. The serial number dates the gun to 1885 and many would assume this is, therefore, an 1885, Stephen Grant, 12-bore, in good condition. The barrels are Damascus, of fine quality, and look exactly like those one would expect a Stephen Grant hammer gun to sport. Sure enough, it read ‘Stephen Grant’, with the correct address of 67A St. Nothing is engraved on the locks by way of maker’ name, so I looked at the rib. We arranged a meeting and out of the gun slip came a bar action hammer gun in apparently good condition but it did not look like any Stephen Grant I had ever seen. Any phone call resulting in the chance to buy a nice hammer gun is welcome and when I got a call last month from a chap saying his father had left him a Stephen Grant a few years ago and that he now wanted to sell it, my interest was, naturally, aroused.
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